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Best Geography, Planning and Development journals

863 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Geography, Planning and Development. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 219 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

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# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Sustainability 44.1 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
2 Business Strategy and the Environment 23.8 99th Q1 SSCI A No
3 Journal of Tourism Futures 23.1 99th Q1 ESCI B Yes
4 Journal of Sustainable Tourism 22.8 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
5 Journal of Travel Research 22.7 99th Q1 SSCI A* No
6 Sustainable Cities and Society 22.3 99th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 20.4 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
8 Environmental Impact Assessment Review 19.6 99th Q1 SSCI – No
9 Global Environmental Change 19.2 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
10 Tourism Review 18.8 98th Q1 SSCI A No
11 Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 17.3 98th Q1 SSCI – No
12 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 16.7 98th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Economic Geography 15.9 98th Q1 SSCI A No
14 Building and Environment 15 98th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Progress in Human Geography 14.9 98th Q1 SSCI – No
16 Progress in Planning 14.3 98th Q1 SSCI – No
17 Land Use Policy 14 98th Q1 SSCI A No
18 Current Issues in Tourism 13.7 98th Q1 SSCI A No
19 Ecosystem Services 13.7 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
20 Ambio 13.6 97th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Long Range Planning 12.6 97th Q1 SSCI A* No
22 Weather and Climate Extremes 12.6 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
23 Sustainability Science 12.4 97th Q1 SCIE – No
24 Water Resources and Industry 12.4 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
25 Urban Climate 12.2 97th Q1 SCIE – No
26 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 11.9 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI C No
27 Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis 11.8 96th Q1 ESCI – No
28 Tourism Geographies 11.7 96th Q1 SSCI A No
29 Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 11.6 96th Q1 SSCI B No
30 Environment, Development and Sustainability 11.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
31 Journal of Remote Sensing (United States) 11.4 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
32 Tourism Recreation Research 11.3 96th Q1 ESCI A No
33 Geography and Sustainability 11.3 96th Q1 ESCI – Yes
34 Environmental Science and Policy 11.1 96th Q1 SCIE – No
35 Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment 11 96th Q1 – – No
36 Journal of Planning Literature 11 95th Q1 SSCI – No
37 International Journal of Geographical Information Science 10.9 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
38 Journal of Rural Studies 10.9 95th Q1 SSCI – No
39 Multimodal Transportation 10.9 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
40 Geocarto International 10.8 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
41 Groundwater for Sustainable Development 10.7 95th Q1 ESCI – No
42 Climate Risk Management 10.4 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
43 Transport Policy 10.3 95th Q1 SSCI A No
44 Travel Behaviour and Society 10.3 95th Q1 SSCI A No
45 Maritime Policy and Management 10.3 94th Q1 SSCI B No
46 Environment and Planning A 10.2 94th Q1 SSCI A* No
47 Tourism and Hospitality Research 10.2 94th Q1 ESCI B No
48 Dialogues in Human Geography 10.2 94th Q1 SSCI – No
49 Geo-Spatial Information Science 10.2 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
50 International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks 10.2 94th Q1 ESCI – Yes
51 Journal of Transport Geography 10 94th Q1 SSCI A No
52 Tourism Economics 10 94th Q1 SSCI A No
53 Applied Geography 10 94th Q1 SSCI – No
54 Energy for Sustainable Development 9.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
55 ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 9.9 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
56 Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 9.7 93rd Q1 SSCI B No
57 International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 9.7 93rd Q1 SSCI B No
58 Geographical Analysis 9.7 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
59 Natural Hazards Research 9.7 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
60 Geopolitics 9.6 93rd Q1 SSCI – No
61 New Political Economy 9.5 93rd Q1 SSCI A No
62 World Development 9.3 92nd Q1 SSCI A* No
63 Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 9.2 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
64 Climate and Development 9.1 92nd Q1 SSCI B No
65 Political Geography 9.1 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
66 Regional Sustainability 8.9 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
67 Sustainability (Switzerland) 8.9 92nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
68 Journal of Urban Mobility 8.8 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
69 World Development Sustainability 8.8 92nd Q1 – – Yes
70 European Planning Studies 8.7 92nd Q1 SSCI – No
71 Research in Globalization 8.7 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
72 International Journal of Tourism Cities 8.6 91st Q1 ESCI B No
73 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 8.5 91st Q1 SSCI – No
74 Environmental Development 8.5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
75 Journal of Urban Management 8.5 91st Q1 ESCI – Yes
76 Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights 8.4 91st Q1 ESCI B Yes
77 Journal of Ecotourism 8.4 91st Q1 ESCI B No
78 International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 8.4 91st Q1 SSCI – Yes
79 Journal of the American Planning Association 8.4 91st Q1 SSCI – No
80 Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 8.4 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
81 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 8.4 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
82 Progress in Environmental Geography 8.3 90th Q1 – – No
83 Aquaculture Economics and Management 8.2 90th Q1 SCIE C No
84 Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 8.1 90th Q1 ESCI – No
85 Extractive Industries and Society 8 90th Q1 SSCI – No
86 Mineral Economics 7.9 90th Q1 ESCI C No
87 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 7.9 90th Q1 SSCI – No
88 Planning Theory 7.8 90th Q1 SSCI – No
89 Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica 7.8 89th Q1 – – No
90 International Journal of Urban Sciences 7.7 89th Q1 SSCI – No
91 Environmental Policy and Governance 7.6 89th Q1 SSCI – No
92 Progress in Physical Geography 7.6 89th Q1 SCIE – No
93 Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events 7.5 89th Q1 ESCI B No
94 Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 7.5 89th Q1 SSCI – No
95 Earth System Governance 7.4 89th Q1 ESCI – Yes
96 Health and Place 7.4 89th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
97 Urban Geography 7.4 88th Q1 SSCI – No
98 Agriculture and Human Values 7.3 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
99 Annals of the American Association of Geographers 7.3 88th Q1 SSCI – No
100 Folia Geographica 7.3 88th Q1 ESCI – Yes
101 Journal of Land Use Science 7.3 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
102 Journal of Planning Education and Research 7.3 88th Q1 SSCI – No
103 Geoenvironmental Disasters 7.2 88th Q1 ESCI – Yes
104 Landscape Ecology 7.2 88th Q1 SCIE – No
105 Journal of Economic Geography 7.1 88th Q1 SSCI A No
106 International Journal of Tourism Research 7 87th Q1 SSCI A No
107 Antipode 7 87th Q1 SSCI – No
108 International Studies Review 7 87th Q1 SSCI – No
109 Journal of Natural Resources 7 87th Q1 – – Yes
110 European Journal of Tourism Research 6.9 87th Q1 ESCI C Yes
111 PFG - Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science 6.9 87th Q1 SCIE – No
112 Rangelands 6.9 87th Q1 – – No
113 South Asian Journal of Business Studies 6.8 87th Q1 ESCI B No
114 Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 6.8 87th Q1 ESCI – No
115 Eurasian Geography and Economics 6.8 86th Q1 SSCI B No
116 Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality 6.7 86th Q1 – B No
117 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 6.7 86th Q1 SCIE – No
118 ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 6.7 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
119 Water (Switzerland) 6.7 86th Q1 SCIE – No
120 Canadian Geographies/Geographies Canadiennes 6.6 86th Q1 SSCI – No
121 East European Politics 6.6 86th Q1 SSCI – No
122 Territory, Politics, Governance 6.6 86th Q1 SSCI – No
123 Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 6.6 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
124 International Journal of Housing Policy 6.5 85th Q1 SSCI – No
125 Journal of Contemporary China 6.5 85th Q1 SSCI – No
126 Urban Design International 6.5 85th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
127 Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 6.4 85th Q1 SSCI B No
128 China Journal 6.4 85th Q1 SSCI – No
129 Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension 6.4 85th Q1 SSCI – No
130 Progress in Disaster Science 6.4 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
131 ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography 6.3 85th Q1 SSCI – No
132 Journal of African Business 6.3 84th Q1 ESCI C No
133 Pacific Review 6.3 84th Q1 SSCI A No
134 City and Environment Interactions 6.3 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
135 Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 6.3 84th Q1 SSCI – No
136 GeoJournal 6.3 84th Q1 ESCI – No
137 Applied Geomatics 6.2 84th Q1 ESCI – No
138 European Societies 6.2 84th Q1 SSCI – Yes
139 Case Studies on Transport Policy 6.1 84th Q1 ESCI C No
140 Water Alternatives 6.1 84th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
141 Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 6.1 83rd Q1 SSCI A No
142 European Journal of Development Research 6.1 83rd Q1 SSCI B No
143 Chinese Geographical Science 6.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
144 Digital Geography and Society 6.1 83rd Q1 – – Yes
145 Geographical Journal 6.1 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
146 Social and Cultural Geography 6.1 83rd Q1 SSCI – No
147 Journal of Public Transportation 6 83rd Q1 SSCI B Yes
148 International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management 6 83rd Q1 – – Yes
149 GeoInformatica 5.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
150 Journal of Geographical Systems 5.9 82nd Q1 SSCI – No
151 Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE 5.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
152 Tourism on the Verge 5.9 82nd Q1 – – No
153 Journal of International Relations and Development 5.8 82nd Q1 SSCI C No
154 Leisure Studies 5.8 82nd Q1 SSCI A No
155 Papers in Regional Science 5.8 82nd Q1 SSCI A Yes
156 Environmental Sociology 5.8 82nd Q1 ESCI – No
157 Journal of Flood Risk Management 5.8 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
158 Local Environment 5.8 82nd Q1 SSCI – No
159 Agribusiness 5.7 81st Q1 SCIE, SSCI C No
160 Journal of Urban Affairs 5.7 81st Q1 SSCI A No
161 Cartography and Geographic Information Science 5.7 81st Q1 SSCI – No
162 Annals of Leisure Research 5.6 81st Q1 ESCI B No
163 Democratization 5.6 81st Q1 SSCI – No
164 Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 5.6 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
165 Regional Science Policy and Practice 5.6 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
166 Spatial Information Research 5.6 81st Q1 ESCI – No
167 Children's Geographies 5.5 80th Q1 SSCI – No
168 Environment and Society: Advances in Research 5.5 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
169 Globalizations 5.5 80th Q1 SSCI – No
170 Innovation and Development 5.5 80th Q1 ESCI – No
171 Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 5.5 80th Q1 – – No
172 Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 5.5 80th Q1 SSCI – No
173 Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability 5.5 80th Q1 ESCI – No
174 Environmental Hazards 5.4 80th Q1 SSCI – No
175 Global Social Challenges Journal 5.4 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
176 International Journal of Public Sector Management 5.4 79th Q1 ESCI B No
177 Thunderbird International Business Review 5.4 79th Q1 ESCI B No
178 Frontiers in Built Environment 5.4 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
179 International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 5.4 79th Q1 ESCI – No
180 Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 5.3 79th Q1 ESCI C No
181 Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 5.3 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
182 International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 5.3 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
183 Mobilities 5.3 79th Q1 SSCI – No
184 Urban Research and Practice 5.3 79th Q1 SSCI – No
185 Journal of Place Management and Development 5.2 78th Q1 ESCI C No
186 Science and Public Policy 5.2 78th Q1 SSCI C No
187 Buildings and Cities 5.2 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
188 Geographical Research 5.2 78th Q1 SSCI – No
189 Journal of Political Ideologies 5.2 78th Q1 SSCI – No
190 Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 5.1 78th Q1 SSCI B No
191 Spatial Economic Analysis 5.1 78th Q1 SSCI B No
192 China Quarterly 5.1 78th Q1 SSCI A No
193 Water Resources and Economics 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
194 Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 5.1 77th Q1 SSCI A No
195 Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 5.1 77th Q1 SCIE – No
196 Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography 5.1 77th Q1 SSCI – No
197 Journal of Urbanism 5.1 77th Q1 – – No
198 Australian Journal of International Affairs 5 77th Q1 SSCI A No
199 Dili Yanjiu 5 77th Q1 – – No
200 Open House International 5 77th Q1 AHCI, SSCI – No
201 Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning 5 77th Q1 ESCI – No
202 Journal of Urban Design 5 76th Q1 ESCI – No
203 Global Society 4.9 76th Q1 ESCI – No
204 Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 4.9 76th Q1 ESCI – No
205 Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 4.9 76th Q1 SSCI – No
206 Journal of Property Research 4.8 76th Q1 ESCI B No
207 Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 4.8 76th Q1 SSCI B No
208 Comparative Migration Studies 4.8 76th Q1 SSCI – Yes
209 Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 4.8 76th Q1 SSCI – No
210 Urban Rail Transit 4.8 76th Q1 ESCI – Yes
211 Area 4.8 75th Q1 SSCI – No
212 International Journal of Heritage Studies 4.7 75th Q1 AHCI, SSCI B No
213 Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 4.7 75th Q1 SSCI B No
214 Geoheritage 4.7 75th Q1 SCIE – No
215 Journal of Tourism, Heritage and Services Marketing 4.6 75th Q1 – C Yes
216 Area Development and Policy 4.6 75th Q1 ESCI – No
217 Central Asian Survey 4.6 75th Q1 SSCI – No
218 Forest and Society 4.6 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
219 Intelligent Buildings International 4.6 75th Q1 ESCI – No
220 Journal of Transport and Land Use 4.6 74th Q2 SSCI B Yes
221 Population, Space and Place 4.6 74th Q2 SSCI A No
222 China Economic Quarterly International 4.5 74th Q2 ESCI C Yes
223 Development Policy Review 4.5 74th Q2 SSCI B No
224 Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 4.5 74th Q2 SSCI B No
225 Asian Geographer 4.5 74th Q2 ESCI – No
226 Journal of Mountain Science 4.5 74th Q2 SCIE – No
227 Mediterranean Politics 4.5 74th Q2 SSCI – No
228 Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 4.5 74th Q2 SSCI – No
229 Review of Development Economics 4.5 73rd Q2 SSCI A No
230 Geographical Review 4.5 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
231 Development Southern Africa 4.4 73rd Q2 SSCI C No
232 EuroChoices 4.4 73rd Q2 ESCI C No
233 Journal of Geography in Higher Education 4.4 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
234 Journal of Political Ecology 4.4 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
235 Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing 4.4 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
236 Planning Theory and Practice 4.4 73rd Q2 SSCI – No
237 World Development Perspectives 4.4 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
238 Regional Studies, Regional Science 4.3 72nd Q2 ESCI A Yes
239 Food and Nutrition Bulletin 4.3 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
240 Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies 4.3 72nd Q2 – – No
241 National Remote Sensing Bulletin 4.3 72nd Q2 – – No
242 Planning Practice and Research 4.3 72nd Q2 ESCI – No
243 Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences 4.3 72nd Q2 – – No
244 Socio-Ecological Practice Research 4.3 72nd Q2 – – No
245 Progress in Geography 4.2 72nd Q2 – – No
246 African Affairs 4.2 71st Q2 SSCI – No
247 City, Territory and Architecture 4.2 71st Q2 – – Yes
248 Environmental Justice 4.2 71st Q2 ESCI – No
249 Journal of Refugee Studies 4.2 71st Q2 SSCI – No
250 Journal of Sustainable Forestry 4.2 71st Q2 SCIE – No
251 Nations and Nationalism 4.2 71st Q2 SSCI – No
252 Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 4.2 71st Q2 ESCI – No
253 Community Development 4.1 71st Q2 ESCI – No
254 Evaluation and Program Planning 4.1 71st Q2 SSCI – No
255 Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 4.1 70th Q2 SSCI C No
256 Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 4.1 70th Q2 SSCI – No
257 East Asia 4.1 70th Q2 ESCI – No
258 Journal of Population Ageing 4.1 70th Q2 ESCI – No
259 Anatolia 4 70th Q2 ESCI B No
260 Journal of International Development 4 70th Q2 SSCI B No
261 Infrastructure Asset Management 4 70th Q2 ESCI – No
262 Maritime Studies 4 70th Q2 ESCI – No
263 UCL Open Environment 4 70th Q2 – – Yes
264 Journal of Maps 4 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
265 Journal of the Urban Planning and Development Division, ASCE 3.9 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
266 Marine Resource Economics 3.9 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI A No
267 City 3.9 69th Q2 ESCI – No
268 Journal of Spatial Science 3.9 69th Q2 SCIE – No
269 Journal on Migration and Human Security 3.9 69th Q2 – – No
270 Migration Studies 3.9 69th Q2 SSCI – No
271 Space and Culture 3.9 69th Q2 AHCI, SSCI – No
272 Wellbeing, Space and Society 3.9 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
273 International Studies Perspectives 3.9 68th Q2 SSCI – No
274 Water Policy 3.9 68th Q2 SCIE – Yes
275 Citizenship Studies 3.8 68th Q2 SSCI C No
276 Journal of Environment and Development 3.8 68th Q2 SSCI B No
277 African Geographical Review 3.8 68th Q2 ESCI – No
278 Nationalities Papers 3.8 68th Q2 SSCI – No
279 Polar Geography 3.8 68th Q2 ESCI – No
280 Refugee Survey Quarterly 3.8 68th Q2 ESCI – No
281 Regional and Federal Studies 3.8 68th Q2 ESCI – No
282 Archaeological Dialogues 3.7 67th Q2 AHCI – No
283 Challenges in Sustainability 3.7 67th Q2 ESCI – No
284 Ethics, Policy and Environment 3.7 67th Q2 ESCI – No
285 Housing and Society 3.7 67th Q2 – – No
286 Island Studies Journal 3.7 67th Q2 SSCI – Yes
287 Journal of Borderlands Studies 3.7 67th Q2 ESCI – No
288 South African Geographical Journal 3.7 67th Q2 SSCI – No
289 Urban Forum 3.7 67th Q2 ESCI – No
290 Forum Geografi 3.7 66th Q2 – – Yes
291 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 3.7 66th Q2 SSCI – No
292 Urban Science 3.7 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
293 Urban Water Journal 3.7 66th Q2 SCIE – No
294 Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 3.6 66th Q2 ESCI C No
295 Applied Mobilities 3.6 66th Q2 ESCI – No
296 Geographies 3.6 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
297 Problemy Ekorozwoju 3.6 66th Q2 SSCI – Yes
298 Review of Regional Research 3.6 66th Q2 ESCI – No
299 Moravian Geographical Reports 3.6 65th Q2 – – Yes
300 Tourism 3.5 65th Q2 ESCI B No

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